Deadline: August 24th 2013
Short works of poetry or prose inspired broadly or otherwise by any character from a Shakespearean play.
Poems: 50 lines
Prose: 3,000 words
First Prize: £40
Second Prize: £25
Third Prize: £15
Entry Fee: £2 per poem, £3 per prose piece
Existing work must not have been placed in top 3 of any competition.
Further submission details are available at http://www.saveaswriters.co.uk/Docs/ShakespearePoster.jpg
The National Poetry Competition
Deadline: 31st October 2013.
International entries welcome.
First prize: £5,000.
Enter online or download an entry form on their website.
Many thanks to everyone who entered our April writing competition and congratulations to Maria Kiernan, Mullingar, Westmeath, Ireland who is the winner. You can read the winning entry on our Creative Writing Ink Journal.
Rebecca Reddin, Paul Protheroe and Ruth Elizabeth Powell were shortlisted. Our May competition closes on the 31st.
The Winchester Writers’ Conference competitions are now open. Competitions include;
Retirement
Writing for Children
Echo Feature Article
Slim Volume, Small Edition
Local History
Writing Can Be Murder
Sustaining Your Environment Youth Competition
Entry Fees: £7 if you’re attending the conference and £9 if you are not.
Deadline: May 24th, 2013
Full details over on their website
Deadline: 30th June 2013
Do you want to tell your own story, or an episode of it; write from your own life experiences and get published?
The Lightship Short Memoir Competition will be judged by Rachel Cusk. The winning entry will be awarded £1,000 and be published in Lightship Anthology 3.
Submissions must not exceed 5,000 words.
Open to writers of any nationality, above the age of 16. There is no restriction on theme or style.
Entry Fee: £12 Sterling per entry.
Full details at http://www.lightshippublishing.co.uk/competition/the_lightship_short_memoir_contest
Deadline: May 24th, 2013
Free to Enter.
Winners will receive $100 worth of Amazon vouchers and a free canvas.
Theme: sunshine.
Entries can be no longer than 45 lines and must be original work. For further details please visit their website.
Deadline: May 22nd, 2013
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and Rocliffe have announced a call out for scripts from emerging comedy screenwriters for a chance to showcase their work in front of the very best of the UK and US television industry at the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (GEITF) in August and at the New York Television Festival (NYTVF) in October.
Open to British UK-based comedy screenwriters who have not yet had a television series commissioned, although they may have broadcast writing credits.
Applicants must submit a ten page extract from their sit-com or sketch show.
The chosen writers will receive:
- A BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum showcase featuring professional actors performing their work in front of an industry audience at GEITF or the NYTVF.
- Feedback during the event from top TV industry guests.
- One-to-one development mentoring sessions by top UK and US comedy commissioners and independent production companies;
- A GEITF festival pass and/or a New York Television Festival ‘Official Artist’ pass;
- Pitch training;
- Travel and accommodation for the festival for which they are selected;
- One-to-one meetings with top UK talent agents;
- Bespoke industry networking opportunities.
@BAFTA and @Rocliffeforum will hold tweetups to answer any questions, using the hashtag #EnterRocliffe.
For further information visit http://www.bafta.org/about/supporting-talent/rocliffe/
The Publications and Conference Committee of the Brontë Society is pleased to announce the opening of the new Creative Competition.
The three categories of this year’s competition are: Short Story, Poetry, and Illustrations of a Brontë novel.:
For short stories, the challenge will be to create a story around one of the minor characters in one of the seven Brontë novels; for example, in ‘Jane Eyre’, Helen Burns’ life before she came to Lowood School.
In the poetry section they are looking for unusual personal responses to one of the Brontës’ novels or poems.
For the third category, the illustration section, they are looking for black-and-white illustrations of a specific scene, as described in one of the novels.
£500 first prize, £250 second prize, and £100 third prize will be awarded in each category.
Entry fee: £10.
Deadline: 31 January, 2014.
Full details over at http://www.bronte.org.uk/bronte-society/creative-competition
Winner will receive 75 copies of their own professionally edited and printed chapbook published by Doire Press. Ten shortlisted entries will be included in a print anthology.
Entries: 3 poems per entry (6 pages max)
Deadline: May 29th, 2013
Entry fees: €10 for first entry, €8 for each additional entry.
Judge: Kevin O’Shea, author of The Art of Non-Fishing (2012). Kevin won the 2012 Cuirt New Writing Prize for poetry and was twice shortlisted for the Over the Edge New Writer of the Year competition.
Entries must not have won any other competition but can have been published in literary journals or magazines.
Further information over at http://www.doirepress.com/competition.html
Deadline: Wed 31 Jul 2013
The 7th annual John Betjeman poetry competition for young people is now open for entries from 10-13 year-olds
Each child is invited to send in (by post or online) one poem on the theme of ‘place’.
The first prize of £1,000 is shared between the winning entrant and his or her school. The winner, runner-up, and second runner-up will each win four standard class tickets from St Pancras International to Paris, Brussels or Lille donated by Eurostar. Five finalists will receive £50 of book tokens. Entries will be judged by Susan Hill CBE.
Six one-day poetry workshops will be awarded to state schools entering the competition. All schools wishing to receive a poet visit should apply in writing via the website www.betjemanpoetrycompetition.com stating their reasons for the application. The trustees will consider all applications that fit the criteria and the schools selected to receive workshops will be notified in September.
The competition is free to enter. Full details over on their website (above).
